Shade-holder.



' No. 633,530. Patented nec. 5, |4899. F. s. wA|BEL & A. soss.

SHADE HOLDER.

(Application led July 11, 1899.)

siren Sterns Earnest Ormea FREDERICK B. IVAIBEL AND AUGUST GROSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AS- SIGNORS TO THE MANHATTAN BRASS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHADE-HOLDR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,530, dated December 5, 1899.

Application led July 14, 1899.

To all w/Lom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDERICK B. VAI- BEL and AUGUST GRoss, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shade-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Shade-holding arms have heretofore been both permanently secured to and removable from the band surrounding the fount or other part of the lamp. Those permanently connected have usually been secured by solder or by turning down part of the band over the bentendsofthearms. Thoseremovablefrom the band have usually been connected to eyes made in the band.

The object of our invention is to make the arms removable and to dispense with the usual shade-holding ring.

Our in vention'relates to a shade-holder that is cheaply made and efficient in use and Wherein the arms are removable and yet held securely without solder and wherein a twisting action or a breaking down is impossible.

In carrying out our invention we make each of the arms with an end that is bent or turned at approximately right angles to the plane of the arm, the end being slightly curved to conform to the are of the band that surrounds the fount or burner of the lamp. The arm is bent adjacent to the end, so as to rest upon a portion of the lamp, and the band is made with equidistant sockets in line or parallel with the direction of the band,the sockets being formed out of the band by pressing the metal of the band from within outward, and the band is provided at the entrance to each socket with an opening or perforation to permit the arms to be sprung into place, and the ends of the band are clamped in any well-known or desired manner.

In the drawings, Figure lis an elevation and partial section representing our improvement, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section at @c fc of Fig. l.

The band (represented at a) is adapted to encircle the founth of the lamp or other equivalent part of the lamp or burner. The

ends a. of the band a are turned outward, and

a fastening-screw 2 is preferably employed as Serial No. 723.864. (No model.)

a means for clamping the band in place, ald though we do not limit ourselves to the fastening device employed, as the same forms no part of our invention.

In the band a we form equidistant sockets I), that are parallel with the direction of the band and whose outer surface is of an arc concentric with the band, and these sockets are formed by pressing the metal of the band outward from the inside, and at the 1u outh of the socket the band is perforated at 3, the said perforation extending along the band in a direction away from the socket for a short dis tance.

The shade-holding arms c are made with ends c' that are bent or turned at approximately right angles to the plane of the arm c, and which ends are curved slightly to conform to the arc of the band a. The arms c are also bent with a base curve at c2 to take a bearing upon the lamp-body or upon a fixed point of the lamp or burner, so as to limit the d0Wnward movement of the arms in relation to the band a. When the band a is loosely in place around a portion of the lamp or burner, the ends c ofthe shade-holding arms are to be forced by a slight pressure into the sockets b, in which placeY said ends come between the metal of the band and the surface of the lamp body or burner, and when the fastening device of the band is tightened the ends c of the arms bear against the body of the lamp or burner and the sockets, so that the arms are securely held and their vertical position maintained. When thus in place, the curved bases c2 limit the downward movement of the arms in relation to the band, s0 that a firm support is given to the lamp-shade. These removable arms are securely held in place without solder, and a shade-holder made according to our inventionis very cheaply constructed and is very efficient in use.

IVe claim as our invention- .1. The herein-described shade-holder consisting of a band having equidistant sockets and perforations adjacent to the mouths of the sockets and arms with ends bent at approximately right angles to the plane of the arm and which ends are adapted to t said sockets and to bear at their opposite sides against the sockets and against a fixed portion of' the lamp body orburner and to be removable therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described shade-holder consisting of the band having eqnidistant sockets parallel with the direction of the band and formed by pressing the metal of the band outward from the inside, said band having perforations at the mouths of the sockets and formed by pressing the metal of the band outward from the inside, said band having perforations at the months of the sockets and the shade holding arms having ends bent or turned at approximately right angles to the plane of the arm and said ends slightly bent to conform to the arc of the band and adapted to it and be removable from said sockets, said arms also having curved bases to rest upon the top of the lamp or a fixed part thereof, substantially as set forth.

Signed by us this 11th day of July, 1899.

FREDERICK B. VAIBEL. AUGUST GROSS.

lVitnesses:

J OHN J. WRENN, W. H. BIRTWHISTLE. 

